Corinne was born about a year and a half after Maria in the same hospital, fittingly, on Labor Day. Labor started again in the early morning hours, but given the experience with Maria, Gail wanted to "make sure" it was time.
When we got to the emergency room to admit Gail, they calmly took her away in a wheelchair to prepare her for delivery. A short while later, a nurse came running from the back to me and said "You'd better get up here, you're wife's having a baby." About 90 minutes later, Corinne was born.
All of our children were baptized at Immanuel Lutheran Chapel in St. Louis in a very special baptism gown. It was the same gown that I got baptized in as well as my father. The gown was worn by all of our children and about a hundred other relatives. It's become a tradition to find out who's got the gown when the next relative is born. There is a list that goes with the gown of all the people baptized in the gown.
Our friend Jeff drew a nice picture that we used for her birth announcement.*
* For those of you who may be reading this in the future, those were actual pieces of paper that we would mail to friends and family announcing the birth. Mail as in paper and stamps. How quaint.
In 2003, we traveled down to Arcata, California for summer vacation. We spent much of the time driving along the coast in Oregon and Northern California. Along the way, we stopped at Sea Lion Caves in Florence, Oregon. We saw this statue, Stellar Sea Lion Family, and decided we needed to have a family picture as well. 
Corinne was born about a year and a half after Maria in the same hospital, fittingly, on Labor Day. Labor started again in the early morning hours, but given the experience with Maria, Gail wanted to "make sure" it was time.
